Students from The Bartlett School of Architecture and Cambridge University have won RIBA 2022 President’s Medals after the biggest number of entries in the 186-year history of the awards programme.

The Bartlett’s Annabelle Tan won the Silver Medal for the best design project produced by a RIBA Part II student or equivalent for her A Journey through Past, Present and Post-Tropicality study.

Tan’s project is an investigation into notions of “tropicality” in the context of Singapore. Her scheme is a 4.2 km “socio-ecological continuum” that links a threatened forest to a national nature reserve. It includes housing, educational spaces, and areas for civic engagement made from regenerative materials produced along the site.

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